Experience a Whole New Way to Search the Web with Exalead's New Service.PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- After focusing on the Enterprise market with its Exalead Corporate product range, Exalead is now announcing an Internet search engine that provides a whole new search experience. Initially, one billion Web pages are being made available on its Website www.exalead.com. Exalead's vision is that the way people are accessing the Web, especially through easy-to-use search engines, is going to define how business users access their information tomorrow. By leveraging the user-centric features and unmatched scalability of its enterprise software, Exalead is now able to offer Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f the same power and ease of use that its business customers have enjoyed for years. Entering the consumer market allows Exalead to fill-in the next step of its roadmap. With this new service, Exalead is now entering the elite club of international Web search engines A Web site that maintains an index and short summaries of billions of pages on the Web, Google being the world's largest. Most search engine sites are free and paid for by advertising banners, while others charge for the service. . This service is intended to be a demonstrator dem·on·stra·tor n. 1. One that demonstrates, such as a participant in a public display of opinion. 2. An article or product used in a demonstration. demonstrator Noun 1. for its innovative technology and to confirm its ambitions to be the number one information access leader, be it for the Internet, e-mails, intranets, corporations or personal computers. Today, by making more pages, documents and information searchable for more languages and countries, Exalead has opened to an international audience a new window to the world. A Whole New Search Experience Designed to make life for Internet users easier, this new search service features a totally new and richer experience for information access, for speed, interactive navigation and ease of use. "As we believe that a simple list of search results is woefully woe·ful also wo·ful adj. 1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful. 2. Causing or involving woe. 3. Deplorably bad or wretched: inadequate to search through billions of Web pages, we have decided to deploy on the Web the navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. that has made us popular in the past four years with corporations and the general public alike. Now we have made navigation even more powerful by providing geographic navigation and document type selection," announced Francois Bourdoncle, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Exalead. In addition to deploying its unique navigation system on the Web, Exalead is introducing many innovative features to help Internet users when they need it the most, and in ways they want to be helped: --Spelling suggestions, approximate and phonetic pho·net·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to phonetics. 2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound. searches, automatic word stemming, etc. --Visually-enhanced search results with thumbnails and "safe page preview." --Ability to sort search results by relevance, source, or even by date. --Guides to help you quickly refine your search based on keywords, categories, language, document format, and even by country. --Bookmarks to save the pages you find interesting as you navigate through the search results. --A smart translation system, developed in collaboration with Systran. --Breakthrough real-time Web indexing Web indexing (or "Internet indexing") includes back-of-book-style indexes to individual websites or an intranet, and the creation of keyword metadata to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet or onsite search engines. technology. --Discover more innovative features on www.exalead.com. Innovative Features The following is a sample of Exalead features that simplifies search for all Internet users. Thumbnails: As a picture is worth more than words, each search result has a thumbnail to give a visual preview of the page. Non-Web pages such as PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. or Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. (R) documents are represented by an icon for quick identification. This feature makes search pleasant to use and is available for every page contained in Exalead's index -- a world's first. It makes it much easier to recognize a logo or a site you have already visited, to distinguish between a personal site and a corporate site, or to avoid spam sites. Preview: By clicking on a search result, Exalead quickly shows a preview without formatting in the bottom half of the screen. Search terms are highlighted and a fast-forward button allows you to see the next search term in a click. This preview protects public users and companies from viruses by not opening the original document (Webpage, PDF, Word(R), etc.), so no fear of viruses -- think of it as risk-free surfing! Keyboard shortcuts make the interface even faster to use. Bookmarks: The "Add a bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. " function is in the preview window. If Internet users find a page interesting, it allows them to store the page's address in their browser's favorites list. They no longer have to open many windows to avoid losing what they have found -- Exalead bookmarks what users find important so they can come back to it later. Exploring a Site: Does it bother you that most search engines show many results from the same site, when the site is of no interest? Exalead's innovation is to show only the most relevant page from every site (or a sub site of very large sites). If the site contains many relevant documents, the icon for the site is a clickable clickable adj (COMPUT) → cliqueable clickable adj → cliccabile folder, which opens up to allow you explore the site. Very practical in use, this two-step method provides the best of both worlds. Real-Time: The freshness of search results is as important as their relevance. Exalead has real-time indexation technology (even for billions of pages), allowing it to remain synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. with the Web to ensure the freshest results possible at all times. Of course there is always a delay between the creation of a new document and its arrival on the search engine, but this delay is now the strict minimum. Sort by Date: Exalead allows for the first time ever the sorting of documents by date. Combined with the real-time indexation, this method makes real-time information monitoring much more efficient. Natural Language: Totally multilingual, Exalead has linguistic tools to help everyone search with greater ease. For example, the search engine automatically searches on word roots ('race horse' can find documents with the words 'race horses'). The search engine recognizes compound words, to better refine the search, and it offers to automatically translate documents that are not in your language. Finally, Exalead makes spelling suggestions for misspelled words, and in difficult cases, it makes phonetic searches or even searches that are tolerant of spelling mistakes! A New Way to Explore the Web Traditional search engines are good for finding information you already know about, but on the other hand, they are very poor for exploring information. Exalead shows not only the search results, but also a table of contents on the left side. This provides a quick overview of all the documents in the search results (and not just the first ones shown). It allows users to refine their search on a navigation axis. These axes consist of: --The relevant directory entries from the human built Open Directory. --The Website's geographic location. --The document's format (Webpage, PDF, Word(R), Excel(R), PowerPoint(R), etc.). --And a set of related terms that represent various themes identified by the search engine while computing the search results. Using sophisticated real-time statistical linguistic technologies, Exalead is actually able to automatically extract even the rarest themes from search results to provide an exhaustive and powerful navigational aid A navigational aid or Navaid is any sort of marker which aids the traveler in navigation; the term is most commonly used to refer to nautical or aviation travel. Common types of such aids include lighthouses, buoys, fog signals, and daybeacons. . By clicking on one or more of these navigation axes, the user is able to "surf the Web" without ever leaving the search engine! Advanced Features The Exalead search engine features many advanced operators typically found on high-end professional systems only. Exalead enterprise products like Exalead Corporate or Exalead Mail feature even more advanced features. Word Stemming: Exalead not only allows word prefix The beginning or to add to the beginning. To prefix a header onto a packet means to place the header characters in front of the packet. "To prefix" at the beginning is the opposite of "to append" characters at the end. See prepend. 1. searches, but also powerful regular expression searches, including word patterns with wildcards. This exclusive technology is a must for crossword puzzle crossword puzzle, word game in which words corresponding to numbered clues are put into a grid of horizontal and vertical squares to form intersecting words. The puzzle is solved when a player supplies all of the words correctly. lovers! Boolean Operators: Exalead features full-blown Boolean operators that power users need to better formulate their searches. Contrary to most other search engines, these operators can be combined at will. The NEAR operator can be used to perform proximity searches, and the OPT operator can be used to rank documents without filtering out documents in which they do not appear. About Exalead We specialize in industrial-grade document and information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. infrastructure. Our products dramatically facilitate access to information bases for all users: employees, customers, suppliers and the public. Our customers include AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. France, Danone Group, Societe Generale, Cad It, Bouygues Telecom, Capgemini, BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (Euronext: BNP, TYO: 8665 ) is one of the main banks in Europe and France. It was created on 23 May 2000 through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. , Gide Loyrette Nouel, The French Ministry of the Interior, The Italian Ministry of Finance, The French Ministry of Education, The French Ministry for Industry, etc. For Web searches, do not hesitate to test Exalead's search engine at www.exalead.com. |
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